Gettysburg Pennsylvania. View of breastworks on Round Top the hill which formed our – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Breastworks built of stacked stone and earth on Round Top mark the Union army's extreme left flank at Gettysburg in July 1863, the southern anchor of a line that Confederate troops tested over three days of fighting. Photographer James F. Gibson, born in 1828, made the view as a stereograph pair, two side-by-side exposures meant to be seen together through a stereoscope, a popular parlor viewer of the period. The glass negatives use the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat and expose plates before they dried. Gibson's work at Gettysburg belongs to the wave of battlefield photography that followed the fighting and shaped how the public first saw the war.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of breastworks on Round Top the hill that formed our extreme left at battle of Gettysburg July 1863. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,287 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52694 |
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